Students from Millville Public Schools will display art work inspired by the diverse cultures that make up our planet's population at The Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, 22 N. High St., Millville, NJ 8332 on your GPS the last week of April.

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Cedarville artist Carol Mandell will be doing a one-woman show on the first Friday in May at the Ashley-McCormick Center, 40-44 E. Commerce St., Bridgeton 08302 on your GPS.

Mandell is all about horses.

She paints them.

She carves them.

She makes them out of metal.

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OWEN GARRISONThere is nothing so good looking as an older veteran.

We want to hear Owen Garrison give one Memorial Day speech before we die.

Unchained!

Unrehearsed!

We want to hear him talk about the sailors pounding on the walls inside of the ships they couldn’t get out of in “Halsey’s Typhoon’’ when the waves were 120 feet high in the South Pacific.

We want to hear the emotion and despair in his voice, and then you tell us you don’t understand the reason for pausing on Memorial Day.

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If you’re on the beach at 34th Street, draw some kind of patriotic sign of freedom in the sand.

Then watch a wave wash it away, and you’ll realize how fragile it is in today’s world.

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Anybody want to offer $2,500 for the 1,000-plus LIFE magazines at the Bridgeton Library.

“What the public has to understand is that a lot of things are not put in the paper when it comes to animals in our area, for whatever reasons, mostly I think because they don't want to hear about poor Blue, or that another dog was found dead in an alley alone, or on the side of a ghetto house where drug dealers hang, or that we found one in a yard that no one cared about and they gave up on it and left if to die alone in that yard with no food, water or even shelter.

“I think that most who get a newspaper, a hot cup of coffee or tea only want to see what crime has been committed or what stocks are going up and what the Horoscope will say about or for them today.’’

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We don’t know about the readers, but we know we chase down every lead we can find on animal cruelty.

How animals are treated defines a society, a state, a county, a city. a community.